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Household of Mathias Hubertus Smeets
Notes about Mathias Hubertus Smeets
he married on 18-04-1908 in Meerssen with Anna Cornelia Schirbach from Maastricht, daughter of Hendrik Hubert Schirbach & Maria Helena Barbara Schobben
The temperature on July 8, 1881 was about 16.8 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
February 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
May 10 » Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
Day of death July 6, 1954
The temperature on July 6, 1954 was between 8.0 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
May 13 » The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place.
June 27 » The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
August 10 » At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
August 13 » Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
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